不足為訓

Chinese

		insufficient; inadequate; lacking insufficient; inadequate; lacking; inadequacy; deficiency; dearth; shortage; want; lack; not enough	because of; for; to because of; for; to; act as; take...to be; to be; to do; to serve as; to become	example; pattern; to teach example; pattern; to teach; to train; instruction
trad. (不足為訓/不足爲訓)		不足	為/爲	訓
simp. (不足为训)		不足	为	训

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùzúwéixùn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄗㄨˊ ㄨㄟˊ ㄒㄩㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ zuk¹ wai⁴ fan³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùzúwéixùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄗㄨˊ ㄨㄟˊ ㄒㄩㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùzúwéisyùn
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-tsu²-wei²-hsün⁴
    • Yale: bù-dzú-wéi-syùn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: butzwuweishiunn
    • Palladius: буцзувэйсюнь (buczuvɛjsjunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ t͡su³⁵ weɪ̯³⁵ ɕyn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ zuk¹ wai⁴ fan³
    • Yale: bāt jūk wàih fan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ dzuk⁷ wai⁴ fan³
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ zug¹ wei⁴ fen³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ t͡sʊk̚⁵ wɐi̯²¹ fɐn³³/

Idiom

不足為訓

1. not fit to serve as a model; not to be taken as an example; not an example to be followed; unauthoritative